For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia
But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, cause youre not going to get it from whats around you. And society isnt going to give it to you. – Jerry Garcia
I mean, just because youre a musician doesnt mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. – Jerry Garcia
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. – Jerry Garcia
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion